Indeed, every song on Georgio is a soundalike for better-known, better-loved contemporaries. “Sweeter Than Candy” is a synth-laden slow jam—sort of like “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” but with the bubblegum barely-adolescent sensibility of early New Edition. Its equivalent on the second side, “I Don’t Want 2 Be Alone,” is a dead ringer for Ready for the World’s “Love You Down.”
“In Love with U” has a chirpy keyboard and call-and-response hook straight out of the Time’s playbook. And if Georgio didn’t lift the synth line for Side 2 opener “Love and Happiness” directly from Prince’s Purple Rain-era outtake “Possessed,” then I will drink a whole bottle of activator spray.
All of this, of course, adds up to a pretty convincing summary for why Georgio—and Georgio—is bargain bin material.
There is nothing here that couldn’t be heard in infinitely better form on a record by Prince or Jam and Lewis or even Jermaine Stewart, whose fey, breathy vocals are probably Georgio’s nearest analogue. But the beauty of the bargain bin find is its inherent unremarkableness: the idea that one person’s trash quite literally can be another person’s treasure, as long as that second person has an unhealthy fixation with mediocre ‘80s R&B. Besides, to truly understand what makes a musical genre tick, one needs to look not at its innovative high points but at its most rote, bog-standard moments.
And with slick, ‘80s-style R&B currently having a moment thanks to artists like Bruno Mars, Chromeo and Janelle Monáe, maybe it’s finally Georgio’s time to shine.
Side A
A1. I Want 2 Dance - 5:40
A2. Romantic Love - 5:31
A3. Car Freak - 4:53
A4. Sweeter Than Candy - 5:16
Side B
B1. Love And Happiness - 4:47
B2. I Don’t Want 2 Be Alone - 4:53
B3. In Love With U - 5:33
B4. Pok-A-Dot - 4:33
B5. My Name Is Georgio - 1:23
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Motown Record Company, L.P.
- Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.
- Distributed By – MCA Records, Inc.
Credits
- Arranged By, Written-By – Georgio
- Engineer – Bob Bridges, Cliff Zellman
- Producer – Georgio
Notes
Release: 1988
Genre: Electronic Funk / Soul
Label: Motown Records
Catalog# ZL72643
Prijs: €4,99
Vinyl: Good
Cover: Good
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